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Early Thursday schedules Maze Runner 2 is left on 2 screens while Everest/American Ultra debut with 1. Guia in Love begins with half day showtimes while The Merger comes away with 3 showtimes. Holdovers will be severely cut this week. More to follow. Actuals Minions - $10,134,826 Inside Out - $8,441,788 Mission Impossible 5 - $6,817,359

Sunday September 13 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 55,658 -- -- 2 No Escape 18,315 7,230 -60.5% -- 3 Everest -- 5,593 -- -- 4 PK 3,436 4,395 +27.9% -- 5 Love Detective 7,699 3,706 -51.9% -- 6 Inside Out 6,279 2,786 -55.6% -- 7 All You Need is Love -- 2,494 -- -- 8 Boychoir -- 1,777 -- -- 9 A Tale of Three Cities 4,378 1,463 -66.6% -- 10 Pixels 4,921 897 -81.8% -- Outstanding for Maze Runner 2. Big drop for No Escape even with gigantic competition. Everest sneaks did not do great. Impressive for PK. Love Detective did OK. Not bad for Inside Out despite losing theaters or some theaters reducing showtimes on Sunday. Weekend Estimates September 10 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $2,110,000 $2,110,000 2 No Escape $257,000 -67.2% $1,302,000 3 PK $147,000 +19.2% $337,000 4 Everest $145,000 $145,000 5 Love Detective $130,000 -59.0% $555,000 Maze Runner 2 has the biggest September weekend on record and is likely the only film to make 2m on OW in September pending actuals. No Escape got crushed by Maze Runner 2. Of course, no holidays this weekend did not help either. It's still a very good total though considering it has only banked 24m in 3 weeks domestically. #3 and #4 will be very close but the nod was given to PK who rose from opening weekend. PK added 2 theaters this week, one on Thursday and one on Saturday so the potential is there for the rest of the theaters from UA to add this in the coming weeks. PK's run is only just beginning. I'll be shocked if this does not pass 1m. 2m is likely IMO. Everest had a poor outing with sneak previews. 3 days of sneaks and it could only muster $145,000 despite 3D premium charge. Next week will be interesting to watch. Love Detective held up alright with no direct competition this week.

Sunday adm. (so far) September 13 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 23,965 -- +4.9% 2 Everest -- 2,348 -- +1.3% 3 PK 1,718 2,311 +34.5% +14.0% 4 No Escape 4,835 2,197 -54.6% +19.9% 5 Love Detective 2,234 1,168 -47.7% +16.2% 6 All You Need is Love -- 1,100 -- +41.4% 7 Inside Out 2,048 897 -56.2% +18.0% 8 Boychoir -- 870 -- +30.0% 9 A Tale of Three Cities 1,939 760 -60.8% +18.4% 10 Lady of the Dynasty -- 416 -- +21.6% Wonderful for Maze Runner 2. Weak for Everest. Outstanding for PK. Mediocre for No Escape. Love Detective did alright. Weekend Projections September 10 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials $2,110,000 $2,110,000 2 No Escape $285,000 -63.6% $1,330,000 3 Love Detective $140,000 -65.9% $565,000 4 Everest $135,000 $135,000 5 PK $133,000 +7.8% $323,000 Note: Due to the complexity of this week, estimates may vary greatly from projections. Maze Runner 2 claims biggest September opening weekend ever. It also is the first film to make over 2m OW in September. No Escape/Love Detective had bad 2nd weekend holds. Everest had very slow sales this weekend. Incredible for PK to rise on its 2nd weekend with huge competition and the holiday last weekend.

Saturday admissions will not be posted due to wmoov being down for the morning and most of the afternoon. Currently, Maze Runner 2 stands at just 38,000 admissions at 5 PM when it should be over 50,000. All the holdovers except PK are down significantly from last weekend which should not be the case.

Thursday Actuals September 10 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thursday (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- $332,717 -- 41 1 $332,717 1 2 No Escape $238,550 $37,168 -84.4% 30 8 $1,081,401 3 3 Love Detective $108,919 $22,096 -79.7% 33 8 $448,399 10 4 PK $34,037 $18,886 -44.5% 6 8 $208,946 -- 5 All You Need is Love -- $11,121 -- 25 1 $11,121 5 6 A Tale of Three Cities $74,571 $9,821 -86.8% 21 8 $280,941 6 7 Undercover Duet $63,916 $8,999 -85.9% 17 15 $789,555 -- 8 Boychoir -- $8,986 -- 11 1 $8,986 4 9 Pixels $87,234 $4,690 -94.6% -- 22 $2,003,719 2 10 Inside Out $130,420 $4,577 -96.5% 27 50 $8,389,165 Note: The reported opening day for Maze Runner 2 was under by nearly $300,000 HK so I used the figure reported by FOX HK instead. In a nutshell: Great for Maze Runner 2 and PK. Pretty bad for everything else. Saturday schedules update PK gains an extra theater in Citygate this weekend. Maze Runner 2 has its showtime count increased by the showtimes that were held back. Friday September 11 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 33,520 -- +21.8% 2 No Escape 12,198 4,967 -59.3% +42.0% 3 Everest -- 3,277 -- -- 4 Love Detective 5,116 2,657 -48.1% +16.9% 5 PK 1,448 2,352 +62.4% +45.3% 6 All You Need is Love -- 1,477 -- +29.1% 7 A Tale of Three Cities 4,382 1,403 -68.0% +35.2% 8 Boychoir -- 1,067 -- +37.0% 9 Pixels 2,947 608 -79.4% +17.6% 10 Inside Out 2,734 551 -79.8% +23.3% Excellent for Maze Runner 2. Mediocre hold for No Escape. Very slow for Everest. Ok hold for Love Detective. Incredible for PK. Not good for All You Need is Love or Boychoir. Bad holds for Three Cities, Pixels and Inside Out. Saturday adm. (so far) September 12 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 22,854 -- +84.7% 2 Everest -- 2,317 -- +61.0% 3 PK 1,243 2,028 +63.2% +124.8% 4 No Escape 4,734 1,832 -61.3% +49.2% 5 Love Detective 1,951 1,005 -48.5% +37.7% 6 All You Need is Love -- 778 -- +54.1% 7 Inside Out 1,780 760 -57.3% -- 8 Boychoir -- 669 -- +69.4% 9 A Tale of Three Cities 1,971 642 -67.4% +14.6% 10 Lady of the Dynasty -- 342 -- +28.1% 10 Hero 2015 1,399 342 -75.6% -- Superb increase for Maze Runner 2. Weak for Everest. This is not good news for next weekend. Outstanding for PK. This will increase from last weekend. Meh for No Escape. Average for Love Detective. All You Need is Love had an OK increase. Not a good hold for Inside Out but it does have the distinction of having the best increase of the top 10 with a 300% push.

Thursday actual Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials - HK$2,574,528 (US$332,717) Fox HK reports that Maze Runner 2 opened 50% higher than the first Maze Runner and that it is the highest grossing opening day for a foreign film in September. With that number, 2m should be happening this weekend. Saturday schedules Maze Runner 2 is getting upgraded to 3 or 4 screens. Palace APM will show this 23 times on Saturday while an independent theater will give this 37 showings on Saturday. Everest will get special sneaks this weekend. Last week's winner, No Escape, will be getting a mixed bag this weekend. Some will upgrade while some will downgrade. Love Detective will add showtimes this weekend while Inside Out is all over the place this weekend. UA will cut it while Broadway/AMC will go full throttle. One theater is even scheduling Inside Out with 5 showtimes this weekend.

Thursday September 10 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 27,530 -- 2 No Escape 22,646 3,497 -84.6% 3 Love Detective 11,305 2,273 -79.9% 4 PK 2,944 1,619 -45.0% 5 All You Need is Love -- 1,144 -- 6 A Tale of Three Cities 7,952 1,038 -86.9% 7 Undercover Duet 5,654 789 -86.0% 8 Boychoir -- 779 -- 9 Pixels 9,711 517 -94.7% 10 Inside Out 13,185 447 -96.6% Very strong opening for Maze Runner 2. Almost every holdover suffered due to the holiday last Thursday. PK was an exception, however, and held superbly, down just 45%. Soft openings for Boychoir and All You Need is Love. Friday adm. (so far) September 11 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 12,376 -- +44.5% 2 Everest -- 1,439 -- -- 3 No Escape 2,739 1,228 -55.2% +82.5% 4 PK 436 902 +106.9% +79.3% 5 Love Detective 1,154 730 -36.7% +23.7% 6 A Tale of Three Cities 1,730 560 -67.6% +83.6% 7 All You Need is Love -- 505 -- +19.7% 8 Boychoir -- 395 -- +34.4% 9 Pixels 1,179 288 -75.6% +21.0% 10 Lady of the Dynasty -- 267 -- +25.4% Good for Maze Runner 2. Slow for Everest but I doubt people know about these special screenings with Maze Runner 2 going on right now. Mediocre for No Escape. Great for PK. Nice for Love Detective. ___________________________________________ Ip Man 3 release date has been set for this Christmas. This is huge news as it will face off against Star Wars for bragging rights this winter.

Well, OD hasn't finished yet but it seems like it's in line for an increase over the 1st Maze Runner. None of the Hunger Games movies have made more than Maze Runner on opening weekend or total. OWs The Maze Runner - HK$11,273,894 ($1,455,423 US) The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - HK$10,739,421/$10,955,755 (including previews) ($1,386,424/$1,414,352 including previews) The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - HK$9,695,195 ($1,251,618) The Hunger Games - HK$5,593,710 ($722,129)

Thursday adm. (so far) September 10 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials -- 8,563 -- 2 No Escape 5,885 673 -88.6% 3 Love Detective 3,491 590 -83.1% 4 PK 1,408 503 -64.3% 5 All You Need is Love -- 422 -- 6 A Tale of Three Cities 3,486 305 -91.3% 7 Boychoir -- 294 -- 8 Pixels 3,669 238 -93.5% 9 Lady of the Dynasty -- 213 -- 10 Undercover Duet 1,828 188 -89.7% Maze Runner got off to a solid start. Terrible holds for all holdovers except for PK once again. Inside Out 5,344 76 -98.6% And just like that, Inside Out became a dead zone in just 1 week.

HK Chinese title. (来着星星的PK) Tuesday actuals 1. No Escape - $86,542/$975,709 2. Love Detective - $37,804/$392,950 3. PK - $23,659/$169,521 4. A Tale of Three Cities - $22,443/$253,713 5. Undercover Duet - $18,279/$759,919 6. Pixels - $15,815/$1,979,089 7. Inside Out - $14,532/$8,334,239 8. Hitman: Agent 47 - $9,658/$1,430,178 So PK came in 3rd on Tuesday. Amazing. Friday schedules Everest will begin showing this Friday in IMAX and a number of locations in 2D/3D. As a result, some holdovers have taken hits with showtimes on Friday. Due to Everest being shown in the IMAX screen, PK will be relegated to regular theaters during the times that Everest is showing in IMAX.

PK's Chinese name includes the word 'star' or 'stars' which was also in the Chinese name for the South Korean hit drama My Love From Another Star. People went crazy over that here and so some of them have gone to see this movie because of that. The themes are Indian but the crux of the movie is universal. That is why it is resonating here and in China. Tuesday adm. September 8 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 8,194 -- +18.5% 2 Love Detective -- 3,902 -- +17.0% 3 A Tale of Three Cities -- 2,380 -- +24.5% 4 PK -- 2,035 -- +36.9% 5 Pixels 7,123 1,752 -75.4% +7.3% 6 Undercover Duet 4,595 1,608 -65.0% +5.8% 7 Inside Out 3,604 1,461 -59.5% +22.9% 8 Hero 2015 2,171 982 -54.8% +38.7% 9 Hitman: Agent 47 3,850 971 -74.8% +12.8% 10 Assassination Classroom -- 630 -- -- Decent for No Escape. Excellent for PK. What started out in 10th place last Thursday has already soared to #4 on Tuesday. Much better hold for Inside Out today. While every other holdover in the top 10 improved their hold by 2.5-7% from Monday, Inside Out bettered its hold by nearly 20% showing how family oriented/young teens this film is. Thursday schedules Maze Runner: Scorch Trials gets 2-3 screens almost everywhere. Other new openers include Lady of the Dynasty, All You Need is Love and Boychoir. Lady of the Dynasty will get major showings in less tourist-y areas. All You Need is Love is getting picked up by MCL and by a few other theaters. Boychoir gets showings at all GH locations and a couple others. Big major holdover winners this week (besides last week's winner) are A Tale of Three Cities, Love Detective and Inside Out. A Tale will get shown for another week at Broadway/AMC and about half of the other theater chains that showed this last week will show it again this week. Love Detective remains on pretty much every theater while Inside Out will see most theaters retain it for another week. Though Inside Out has performed poorly over the past week since school has begun, it is in its 8th week while the rest are in their 3rd or 4th week. Biggest losers include Pixels and Hitman: Agent 47 and Undercover Duet. Pixels is gone from UA and GH while Hitman will see its theater count drop by more than half. Undercover Duet remains strong at smaller scale theaters but UA will cut this in half on Thursday and MCL has axed this from 3 of its theaters. PK will only add 1 theater on Thursday, the UA Airport IMAX. I'm unsure if any more UA theaters will pick this up at this point because the other 3 theaters with IMAX from last week have moved PK to their IMAX screen on Thursday and the Airport IMAX is only an extension of them. Perhaps this is a test run for the rest.

Actuals 1. No Escape - $811,766 (including previews) 2. Love Detective - $321,042 (including previews) 3. Inside Out - $8,261,750 4. A Tale of Three Cities - $212,065 (including previews) 5. Pixels - $1,937,750 PK - $127,860 (including previews) Mission Impossible 5 - $6,717,297 Monday adm. September 7 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 6,915 -- -62.2% 2 Love Detective -- 3,335 -- -56.7% 3 A Tale of Three Cities -- 1,911 -- -56.3% 4 Pixels 8,534 1,633 -80.9% -66.8% 5 Undercover Duet 4,673 1,520 -67.5% -61.7% 6 PK -- 1,487 -- -56.7% 7 Inside Out 5,190 1,189 -77.1% -81.1% 8 Hitman: Agent 47 3,864 861 -77.7% -69.9% 9 Hero 2015 1,860 708 -61.9% -75.3% 10 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 1,744 554 -68.2% -77.2% A disastrous Monday for most films. Ugly daily drop for Inside Out. PK remains a standout as it was the only film of the top 10 to beat its admissions from last Friday.

Sept 3 Actuals Inside Out - $8,283,226 Mission Impossible 5 - $6,725,937

Sunday September 6 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 18,315 -- -11.7% 2 Love Detective -- 7,699 -- -7.0% 3 Inside Out 14,734 6,279 -57.4% -1.3% 4 Pixels 16,734 4,921 -70.6% -1.2% 5 A Tale of Three Cities -- 4,378 -- -18.8% 6 Undercover Duet 9,978 3,973 -60.2% -0.5% 7 PK -- 3,436 -- +20.8% 8 Hero 2015 5,585 2,871 -48.6% -15.7% 9 Hitman: Agent 47 10,135 2,856 -71.8% -4.0% 10 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 5,658 2,428 -57.1% -18.0% Disappointing decreases for everything except PK which rose 20% on Sunday. Weekend adm. Sep 3-6 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 No Escape -- 73,893 -- 2 Love Detective -- 32,398 -- 3 Inside Out 39,854 28,560 -28.3% 4 Pixels 55,061 22,558 -59.0% 5 A Tale of Three Cities -- 22,105 -- 6 Undercover Duet 32,245 16,358 -49.3% 7 Hero 2015 17,114 13,272 -22.4% 8 Hitman: Agent 47 32,927 12,549 -61.9% 9 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 16,775 11,288 -32.7% 10 PK -- 10,673 -- Weekend Estimates September 3 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 No Escape $773,000 $809,000 2 Love Detective $312,000 $316,000 3 Inside Out $282,000 -31.2% $8,262,000 4 A Tale of Three Cities $208,000 $213,000 5 Pixels $203,000 -65.0% $1,943,000 Great opening for No Escape. HK could turn out to be a top ten market for it. Kind of underwhelming for Love Detective. Inside Out spends its 7th week in the top 3, one of only 3 8m+ grossers to achieve that feat (Avatar, Titanic are the other 2). 9m is pretty much dead at this point. A Tale of Three Cities bombed. Pixels had its lights turned out this week ending any hopes for 3m. #7-#10 will be very close as estimates put them within $5,000 of each other. PK will begin with around $120,000 (+63% 3 Idiots opening weekend showing in just 5 theaters).

As of this moment, PK is a couple hundred admissions away from Thursday's admissions and will pass it before the day ends. The success of PK this weekend can be attributed to 3 Idiots back in 2011. 3 Idiots HK run in 2011 Now it is unlikely that PK would come close to 3 Idiots' gross if it only continues to play in just 5 theaters, however, if this expands to other UA theaters next weekend, this has a shot at catching 3 Idiots. The user rating through opening weekend still sits at an astonishing 4.8/5 and will continue to play well with audiences throughout its run. It will have a bigger opening weekend than 3 Idiots and its PTA will be in the neighborhood of $24,000-$26,000 this weekend.

Saturday September 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 20,734 -- +70.0% 2 Love Detective -- 8,278 -- +61.8% 3 Inside Out 13,046 6,362 -51.2% +132.7% 4 A Tale of Three Cities -- 5,393 -- +23.1% 5 Pixels 16,760 4,979 -70.3% +69.0% 6 Undercover Duet 10,107 3,991 -60.5% +45.7% 7 Hero 2015 6,182 3,405 -44.9% +93.5% 8 Hitman: Agent 47 10,379 2,974 -71.3% +59.1% 9 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 5,975 2,962 -50.4% +112.3% 10 PK -- 2,845 -- +96.5% Superb for No Escape. Decent for Love Detective. Not great for Inside Out. 9m looks to be a stretch now. The only consolation that it can take away from today is that it held 10% better than yesterday (% wise) where it is tracking the best of the holdovers. While Hero had the best hold, it seems to be slowing down, dropping 6% more on Saturday than Friday. Terrible increase for Three Cities but that was expected. Pixels had another disaster. Bad hold for Undercover Duet. Love Detective is affecting its hold this weekend. Good hold overall for Hero. Yikes for Hitman. Good for Mission Impossible 5. PK is doing really well. Sunday adm. (so far) September 6 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 4,835 -- +2.1% 2 Love Detective -- 2,234 -- +14.5% 3 Inside Out 5,764 2,048 -64.5% +15.1% 4 A Tale of Three Cities -- 1,939 -- -1.6% 5 PK -- 1,718 -- +38.2% 6 Pixels 7,463 1,712 -77.1% -0.5% 7 Hero 2015 3,524 1,344 -61.9% -3.9% 8 Undercover Duet 3,088 1,135 -63.2% +3.1% 9 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 1,727 721 -58.3% +17.6% 10 Assassination Classroom -- 620 -- -- Good for No Escape. Surprised that Inside Out did not overtake Love Detective in pre-sales. Inside Out should be able to hold better than 50% today even with that bad hold in pre-sales. Wow PK. It might have its best day today instead of the Thursday holiday. Weekend Projections September 3 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 No Escape $790,000 $826,000 2 Love Detective $310,000 $314,000 3 Inside Out $290,000 -29.3% $8,270,000 4 A Tale of Three Cities $213,000 $218,000 5 Pixels $208,000 -64.1% $1,943,000 Marvelous opening for No Escape. Playing in just 31 theaters, this will garner a possible $25,000+ PTA. Love Detective opened to nearly the same number as Undercover Duet. When you look at the weekend number for Inside Out, it is pretty good but of course the holiday inflated its weekend number and the trend does not look particularly rosy for it. It will have to play well on Sunday/Monday to restore theaters' confidence in it. While I think most theaters were being particularly generous this weekend, they won't be come next Thursday if it continues to have virtually non-existant weekdays and mild weekends. A Tale of Three Cities opened to the 2nd highest of most theaters but it did not register with moviegoers. Period dramas never ever do well on holiday weekends...just ask The Flowers of War. Pixels got off to a poor start on the Thursday holiday and dropped like on a rock this weekend. Huge crash for it and the chance of making 3m is gone.

At this moment, The Little Prince will open against direct competition in the form of Peanuts and Yo-Kai Watch (Japanese anime) while contending with the 2nd weekend of Star Wars on December 24 in Hong Kong. I do not have high hopes for it.

Thursday Actuals September 3 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thursday (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 No Escape -- $238,550 -- 31 1 $274,780 4 2 Inside Out $50,924 $130,420 +156.1% 35 43 $8,109,785 -- 3 Love Detective -- $108,919 -- 35 1 $112,827 1 4 Pixels $119,124 $87,234 -26.8% 37 15 $1,822,259 -- 5 A Tale of Three Cities -- $74,571 -- 34 1 $79,455 3 6 Undercover Duet $52,593 $63,916 +21.5% 31 8 $599,289 7 7 Hero 2015 $21,608 $49,101 +127.2% 33 8 $277,917 6 8 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $22,626 $48,012 +112.2% 25 36 $6,644,953 2 9 Hitman: Agent 47 $52,788 $47,974 -9.1% 20 8 $1,327,990 -- 10 PK -- $34,037 -- 5 1 $38,501 Very good for No Escape. Excellent for Inside Out. 8.3m will happen by the end of this weekend at least. Not bad for Love Detective. Shockingly awful for Pixels to decrease week-to-week on a holiday. Bad for A Tale of Three Cities. MI5 will likely pass 6.7m this weekend. Friday September 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 12,198 -- -46.1% 2 Love Detective -- 5,116 -- -54.7% 3 A Tale of Three Cities -- 4,382 -- -44.9% 4 Pixels 11,928 2,947 -75.3% -69.7% 5 Undercover Duet 6,532 2,740 -58.1% -51.5% 6 Inside Out 7,112 2,734 -61.6% -79.3% 7 Hitman: Agent 47 7,027 1,869 -73.4% -61.5% 8 Hero 2015 2,870 1,760 -38.7% -66.4% 9 PK -- 1,448 -- -50.8% 10 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 3,009 1,395 -53.6% -69.0% Great for No Escape. Decent for Love Detective. Obviously the holiday will trade off a bit with Friday-Sunday this weekend so holds will be larger than normal. Although it had the best hold of the top 10 in admissions from Thursday, A Tale of Three Cities is not doing well. Major ouch for Pixels. 3m might not happen after all. Undercover Duet just pipped Inside Out for #5. Not a great hold for Duet or Inside Out. Very good for Hero. Remarkable for PK to drop just 50% from the Thursday holiday despite the long running time. Surprisingly decent for MI5. Teens were really driving MI5 over the summer so to see a near 50% hold in admissions is not too bad at all. Saturday adm. (so far) September 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 4,734 -- +72.8% 2 A Tale of Three Cities -- 1,971 -- +13.9% 3 Love Detective -- 1,951 -- +69.1% 4 Inside Out 4,526 1,780 -60.7% +174.7% 5 Pixels 7,299 1,721 -76.4% +46.0% 6 Hero 2015 2,948 1,399 -52.5% +106.0% 7 PK -- 1,243 -- +185.1% 8 Undercover Duet 2,475 1,101 -55.5% +58.9% 9 Hitman: Agent 47 2,482 628 -74.7% +83.1% 10 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 1,553 613 -60.5% -- Really good for No Escape. Perhaps it could hit 17,500 admissions today. #2-#5 are only separated by 250 admissions but the trend here is what's important. Inside Out will be 2nd. Love Detective will be 3rd and Pixels/Three Cities will fight for #4/#5. PK continues to do well as it beat Inside Out at its own game: have the biggest increase of the entire top 10.

Yes, it is. Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) August 24-30 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 2 1 Pixels $5,827,790 $6,172,931 11 +5.9% $12,000,721 $794,873 $1,545,304 1 2 Inside Out $7,075,172 $4,770,327 39 -32.6% $61,261,851 $614,263 $7,888,545 3 3 Hitman: Agent 47 $4,709,486 $4,364,936 11 -7.3% $9,074,422 $562,062 $1,168,492 -- 4 Undercover Duet -- $2,912,320 4 -- $2,912,320 $375,012 $375,012 4 5 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $4,059,478 $2,213,842 32 -45.5% $50,949,330 $285,071 $6,560,626 6 6 Wild City $2,492,385 $1,634,156 11 -34.4% $4,126,541 $210,426 $531,365 -- 7 Knock Knock Who's There? -- $1,574,018 4 -- $1,667,594 $202,682 $214,732 -- 8 Hero 2015 -- $1,258,793 4 -- $1,301,433 $162,091 $167,582 8 9 To the Fore $1,831,518 $993,119 25 -45.8% $9,268,913 $127,881 $1,193,536 -- 10 Assassination -- $758,742 4 -- $783,309 $97,701 $100,864 Just OK for Pixels. 2m will be broken by next week. Inside Out has already passed 8m and is currently #14 of all time. 9m will depend on how well it holds up on weekdays. Weekends have been doing pretty well but its weekdays that is concerning right now. Pretty bad for Hitman to decrease from last week's 4-day opening. Mission Impossible 5 has blown past 6.6m and 6.7m will happen by this weekend. Thursday September 3 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 No Escape -- 22,646 -- 2 Inside Out 4,962 13,185 +165.7% 3 Love Detective -- 11,305 -- 4 Pixels 9,639 9,711 +0.7% 5 A Tale of Three Cities -- 7,952 -- 6 Undercover Duet 5,628 5,654 +0.5% 7 Hero 2015 2,477 5,236 +111.4% 8 Hitman: Agent 47 5,386 4,850 -10.0% 9 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 2,133 4,503 +111.1% 10 PK -- 2,944 -- No Escape absolutely crushed the competition. Walk-ins were a staunch 74%. Opening day reviews sit a very good 4.5/5. Playing on incredible word of mouth, Inside Out did not just shot up two-fold from last week but it was the only holdover of the top 10 to defeat its Saturday admissions. Ok for Love Detective. It's doing similar numbers to Undercover Duet. Opening day users have given it a 3.3/5...not exactly inspiring confidence. Pretty bad for Pixels. It only marginally increased from last week despite Thursday being a holiday. Awful for A Tale of Three Cities. No one cares for these types of films here. Early reviews have it at a 3.8/5. Bad for Undercover Duet. Very good for Hero. That is ghastly for Hitman. Nice for Mission Impossible 5. PK had a fantastic opening day. Showing in just 5 theaters and with 21 showings, it averaged 140 people per showtime. Superb. Early reviews have said that this is better than 3 Idiots and that made 3m in HK. It is unknown if any more UA theaters will pick this up next week but for now, a great start. Opening day users have tagged it with a 4.8/5 so far. Incredible score. Thursday actuals 2. Inside Out - $141,268/$8,139,613 8. Mission Impossible 5 - $52,506/$6,665,139 Inside Out should be at 8.4m by the end this weekend. Mission Impossible 5 will pass 6.7m this weekend and jump over Interstellar and Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for #25 foreign film of all time. Friday adm. (so far) September 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 No Escape -- 2,739 -- -53.5% 2 A Tale of Three Cities -- 1,730 -- -50.4% 3 Pixels 5,373 1,179 -78.1% -67.9% 4 Love Detective -- 1,154 -- -66.9% 5 Undercover Duet 1,664 693 -58.4% -62.1% 6 Hero 2015 1,175 679 -42.2% -76.9% 7 Inside Out 2,292 648 -71.7% -87.9% 8 PK -- 436 -- -69.0% 9 Hitman: Agent 47 1,759 343 -80.5% -74.4% 10 The Assassin 754 309 -59.0% -- Good for No Escape. A Tale of Three Cities only jumped to 2nd place because it plays to the older crowd. Still not good enough. Awful for Pixels. The wheels have fallen off now. OK for Love Detective. Decent hold for Undercover Duet. Very good hold for Hero. This is exactly what I was worried about with Inside Out. Very weak pre-sales have seen it slip to #7. It will no doubt rebound a bit with walk-ins but will theaters want to continue showing this 5 days in a row with very slow sales just for 2 days of solid but not outstanding ticket sales? Excellent for PK considering it's a very long film and holiday is over.

Wednesday adm. September 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 10,735 7,328 -31.7% +2.9% 2 Undercover Duet -- 5,143 -- +11.9% 3 Hitman: Agent 47 6,640 3,907 -41.2% +1.5% 4 Inside Out 5,839 3,874 -33.7% +7.5% 5 No Escape -- 3,343 -- -- 6 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 2,770 -- -2.5% 7 Hero 2015 -- 2,231 -- +2.8% 8 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 2,679 1,890 -29.5% +26.6% 9 Assassination -- 1,555 -- +11.4% 10 Wild City 3,282 1,511 -54.0% +12.9% With the exception of Undercover Duet, the rest of the top 4 only did marginally better than Tuesday. No Escape got off to an OK start with previews. Thursday adm. (so far) September 3 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 No Escape -- 5,885 -- 2 Inside Out 1,354 5,344 +294.7% 3 Pixels 4,628 3,669 -20.7% 4 Love Detective -- 3,491 -- 5 A Tale of Three Cities -- 3,486 -- 6 Hero 2015 1,031 2,939 +185.1% 7 Undercover Duet 1,137 1,828 +60.8% 8 PK -- 1,408 -- 9 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 484 1,387 +186.6% 10 Hitman: Agent 47 982 1,338 +36.3% Decent for No Escape. Excellent for Inside Out. It along with Hero were the only 2 films from last week who beat its final admissions from last Thursday with just its pre-sales. Terrible hold for Pixels. Not good for Love Detective or A Tale of Three Cities. Love Detective could see huge walk-ins though. Wonderful for Hero. Incredible start for PK. It sits at 67 people per showing with just its pre-sales alone. Great for Mission Impossible 5. Bad for Hitman. The ONE A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 7 2 6 4 6 Total admissions 341 64 181 179 278 Admissions per showing 48.71 32 30.16666667 44.75 46.333333 Cine Times A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 3 5 4 2 1 Total admissions 101 146 173 77 45 Admissions per showing 33.67 29.20 43.25 38.5 45 STAR Cinema A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 3 5 11 3 3 Total admissions 75 102 417 86 170 Admissions per showing 25 20.4 37.91 28.67 56.67 Total admissions (from all 3 theaters) 517 312 771 342 493 Inside Out is the most steady of the 5 films with each theater managing an average of 45 people per showing. Three Cities/No Escape's admissions have been volatile with No Escape/Three Cities each scoring 25-30 average per showing at 1 theater.

9m is about 60/40. 10% chance for 10m. 9m is certainly not locked. Inside Out's weekdays will be very poor as evidenced by Tuesday's 4th place finish. Since weekend showings are predicated on Thursday/Friday numbers, that won't bode well for Inside Out beginning next week. The holiday could not have come at a better time though. Inside Out was starting to fade but the holiday this week will allow it to have a very solid hold this weekend. ___________________________________________________ Apparently, Undercover Duet was the #1 film on Tuesday in gross so Pixels true hold is somewhere in the -50 to -60% range. I'm not sure why Pixels has such high admissions though on the site.

Tuesday adm. September 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 12,716 7,123 -44.0% -16.5% 2 Undercover Duet -- 4,595 -- -1.7% 3 Hitman: Agent 47 8,614 3,850 -55.3% -0.4% 4 Inside Out 7,929 3,604 -54.5% -30.6% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 2,842 -- -0.7% 6 Hero 2015 -- 2,171 -- +16.7% 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 3,350 1,493 -55.4% -14.4% 8 The Assassin -- 1,462 -- +25.9% 9 Assassination -- 1,396 -- +18.9% 10 Wild City 4,421 1,338 -69.7% -0.6% Family friendly films took a big hit today as school is now back in session. Good hold for Pixels overall. OK for Undercover Duet. Not good for Hitman. On the surface, Inside Out had a bad hold but its afternoon showings were severely hindered by school starting today. Poor for Knock Knock. Wednesday adm. (so far) September 2 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 4,639 3,553 -23.4% +3.9% 2 Undercover Duet -- 1,120 -- +19.9% 3 Inside Out 1,878 1,070 -43.0% +9.1% 4 Hero 2015 -- 822 -- -0.7% 5 Hitman: Agent 47 1,172 809 -31.0% +17.6% 6 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 604 -- +10.2% 7 No Escape -- 536 -- -- 8 Assassination -- 441 -- -6.4% 9 Wild City 854 413 -51.6% -1.4% 10 The Assassin -- 362 -- -17.7% Bad increase for Pixels. Solid jump for Undercover Duet. Not good for Inside Out. No Escape sneaks debut at #7. Thursday schedules Broadway/AMC The ONE New Holdovers Leaving A Tale of Three Cities - 7 showings Assassination - 1 showing (▼ 5) No Escape - 6 showings Knock Knock Who's There? - 1 showing (▼ 5) Love Detective - 2 showings The Assassin - 1 showing (▼ 3) Kidnapping Freddy Heineken - 3 showings The Emperor in August - 1 showing (▼ 3) The Gunman - 4 showings Undercover Duet - 1 showing (▼ 5) Pixels - 4 showings (▼ 7) Hitman: Agent 47 - 3 showings (▼ 6) Attack on Titan - 2 showings (▼ 3) Paper Towns - 1 showing (=) The Man From U.N.C.L.E. - 1 showing (=) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (=) Inside Out (Eng.) - 6 showings (▲ 5) A Tale of Three Cities gets 1 screen (and usually on the biggest screen) at every location. No Escape gets 4-5 showings average at Broadway/AMC. Love Detective is getting half day showtimes. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken/Cat Funeral/The Gunman/Every Thing Will Be Fine/Assassination Classroom/How to Make Love Like An Englishman are all being shown in less than half of the theaters owned by this group. Due to Thursday being a holiday, 4 theaters have increased Inside Out's showtimes on Thursday. Friday will see a reversal as many will give more showtimes back to openers/holdovers due to school. Pixels is reduced to half day showings on Thursday. Hitman is following suit with about 3 showings per day. Undercover Duet gets slashed down to 1 or 3 showings depending on the theater. Mission Impossible 5 is being served with only 1 or 2 showtimes on Thursday. UA Cine Times New Holdovers Leaving Love Detective - 5 showings Undercover Duet - 2 showings (▼ 5) Pixels (3D Atmos) A Tale of Three Cities - 3 showings Hero 2015 - 2 showings (▼ 3) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation No Escape - 3 showings Assassination - 2 showings (▼ 3) Knock Knock! Who's There? The Gunman - 2 showings The Assassin - 1 showing (▼ 2) PK - 3 showings Hitman: Agent 47 - 2 showings (▼ 6) Cat Funeral - 2 showings Pixels - 1 showing (▲ 0) Assassination - 2 showings (▼ 3) Wild City - 2 showings (▼ 5) To the Fore - 2 showings (▼ 3) Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes - 1 showing (=) Inside Out (Can.) - 1 showing (▼ 2) Love Detective will get the biggest screen here and/or the most showings. Only 5 UA theaters + Cine-Art House will pick up No Escape and collectively they have given NE an average of 3-4 showings per day. A Tale of Three Cities fared even worse with just 4 UA theaters adding this into their lineup with only half-day showtimes given. Exclusive release PK is being shown in the Cinehub section of UA and is getting the biggest screen alongside LD in these theaters. The Gunman/Cat Funeral have picked up 3 and 4 theaters each respectively. Undercover Duet survived quite well here with 2-3 showings per day on Thursday. Hitman also managed to get out relatively unscathed with 2-3 showings at UA. Hero retains 2-3 showings on Thursday. Those theaters that are showing Pixels in IMAX will shrink its showing count to just 1 on Thursday. Normally when that occurs, they will transfer some showings of the same film into their regular theaters but this week, none of them have done that. Remaining regular theaters are being kinder and is leaving it with 2 showings average per day. Inside Out remains on 2-3 showings at most locations. Mission Impossible 5 is the most affected by the new openers and is gone from 3 theaters but was added in 1 theater on Thursday. Wild City scrapes by with 1 or 2 showings on Thursday. MCL STAR Cinema New Holdovers Leaving No Escape - 11 showings Hero 2015 - 3 showings (=) Assassination Love Detective - 5 showings Undercover Duet - 2 showings (▼ 3) To the Fore A Tale of Three Cities - 3 showings Knock Knock Who's There? - 1 showing (▼ 5) Doraemon: Nobita and the Space Heroes Cat Funeral - 2 showings Pixels - 3 showings (▼ 5) Hollywood Adventures Assassination Classroom - 5 showings Hitman: Agent 47 - 1 showing (▼ 2) Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - 1 showing (▼ 4) Inside Out (Can.) - 3 showings (=) MCL is like the Broadway/AMC of normal times. Usually it's MCL who is the liberal one and gives showings to every film when one of their new film arrives but not this week. They have gone gung ho with No Escape and have pushed it onto 2 screens (biggest + one other...usually 2nd biggest) A Tale of Three Cities gets half day showings while Love Detective takes off with 4. Other openers such as Assassination Classroom gets 5 showings while Cat Funeral/Gunman/Kidnapping Freddy Heineken open in just 1 theater (not including The GRAND). Holdovers: Mission Impossible 5 is saved with 1 showtime here. Inside Out remains with 3-4 showtimes. Pixels gets flattened to about 3 showings. Hitman is axed to just 1-2 showings. Hero gets 3 showtimes. Undercover Duet gets a pair of showtimes. GH Openers: You know the openers are weak when one theater sticks with the holdovers and doesn't pick up any new films or another theater picks up fluff like Gunman/How to Make Love like an Englishman and not any of the top 3. Hilarious stuff. Of those that are adding the top 3 openers into their schedules, No Escape turned out to the best with 5 showings on 3 theaters. Love Detective is also getting added by 3 with 4 showings. A Tale of Three Cities gets only 1. Inside Out corners the market at this theater chain with the biggest screen or most showtimes. Pixels down to about 3 or 4 showtimes. Mission Impossible 5 moves down to 3 theaters on 2 showtimes. Hitman came out of here alive with 3 showings apiece. Undercover Duet gets shaken down to 2 showtimes. Pre-sales Pre-sales of the expected top 5 (taken at 10 PM) The ONE A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 7 2 6 4 6 Total admissions 159 24 36 64 78 Admissions per showing 22.71 12 6 16 13 Cine Times A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 3 5 3 1 1 Total admissions 34 46 62 20 4 Admissions per showing 11.33 9.20 20.67 20 4 STAR Cinema A Tale of Three Cities Love Detective No Escape Pixels Inside Out Showings 3 5 11 3 3 Total admissions 24 49 174 34 55 Admissions per showing 8 9.8 15.82 11.33 18.33 Total admissions (from all 3 theaters) 217 119 272 118 137 A Tale of Three Cities is way out in front at The ONE but it got early pre-selling. Inside Out is doing particular well on Thursday after being way behind Pixels/Hitman in pre-sales the past week. Pixels is also doing solid business. Love Detective is way behind and No Escape is a surprisingly slow starter at The ONE. This type of film does well at that theater. At UA, No Escape and Love Detective are doing alright. A Tale is doing OK-ish while Pixels pre-sales are good here. Inside Out is doing terribly which is a surprise considering this theater has had very strong pre-sales in the past. HUGE pre-sales at MCL for No Escape (with no early pre-selling too). Love Detective is doing OK but A Tale is very weak at STAR. Pixels is doing steady while Inside Out is cruising along with good pre-sales. No Escape will be #1 on Thursday. #2 will be up for grabs between A Tale of Three Cities/Inside Out. #4 is a tossup between Love Detective and Pixels. This theater report has been brought to you by the three theater chain heads (Br./AMC, UA, MCL) 'Anger' (from Inside Out) who secretly want to push the other 2 films out the door for shoving their films on terrible showtimes or screens. ________________________________________________ UA Windsor Cinema closed last week but it has been taken over by MCL who will reopen the theater at the end of this month. This is huge because MCL oversees the other Causeway Bay theater (which is just across from Windsor Cinema) so this could play like a 2nd theater where JP will host the 2 biggest films and Windsor will showcase the 3 smaller ones.

Monday adm. August 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 11,240 8,534 -24.1% -49.0% 2 Inside Out 6,409 5,190 -19.0% -64.8% 3 Undercover Duet -- 4,673 -- -53.2% 4 Hitman: Agent 47 7,427 3,864 -48.0% -61.9% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 2,863 -- -50.3% 6 Hero 2015 -- 1,860 -- -66.7% 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 2,658 1,744 -34.4% -69.2% 8 Wild City 3,563 1,346 -62.2% -59.7% 9 Assassination -- 1,174 -- -66.0% 10 To the Fore 1,852 1,172 -36.7% -56.0% Good hold for Pixels. Excellent for Inside Out. Decent for Undercover Duet. Rank Movie Last Thu. Mon. % chg 1 Pixels 9,639 8,534 -11.5% 2 Inside Out 4,962 5,190 +4.6% 3 Undercover Duet 5,628 4,673 -17.0% 4 Hitman: Agent 47 5,386 3,864 -28.3% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? 4,630 2,863 -38.2% 6 Hero 2015 2,477 1,860 -24.9% 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 2,133 1,744 -18.2% 8 Wild City 1,720 1,346 -21.7% 9 Assassination 1,709 1,174 -31.3% 10 To the Fore 1,417 1,172 -17.3% The top 3 had the best holds from last Thursday and Inside Out was the only film to increase. Tuesday adm. (so far) September 1 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 5,447 3,419 -37.2% -13.1% 2 Inside Out 2,507 981 -60.9% -22.2% 3 Undercover Duet -- 934 -- +2.2% 4 Hero 2015 -- 828 -- +65.9% 5 Hitman: Agent 47 1,613 688 -57.3% +21.8% 6 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 548 -- +7.9% 7 Assassination -- 471 -- +37.3% 8 The Assassin -- 440 -- +30.6% 9 Wild City 1,161 419 -63.9% +13.2% 10 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 683 283 -58.6% -24.3% That is a weird number for Pixels. It should have much lower admissions than that. It's possible that Pixels admissions are being inflated by D-BOX seats and IMAX. It's definitely not in line with early Thursday schedules already out. Nevertheless, big drops for both Pixels and Inside Out from Monday due to school being back in session today. Rest of the films besides family-friendly Mission Impossible 5 saw increases today from yesterday. Back to Thursday's 10 new openers where a few films will play with a heavy presence at one theater chain. They include: A Tale of Three Cities - distributed by EDKO (Broadway/AMC) - 1 screen PK - exclusive UA release only (UA) Love Detective - UA Film (UA) No Escape - distributed by MCL (MCL) - 2 screens The other new openers are being released under small distributors here and are not major competition this weekend.

Monday adm. (so far) August 31 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 4,560 3,935 -13.7% -47.3% 2 Inside Out 1,788 1,261 -29.5% -78.1% 3 Undercover Duet -- 914 -- -70.4% 4 Hitman: Agent 47 1,201 565 -53.0% -79.7% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 508 -- -70.0% 6 Hero 2015 -- 499 -- -85.8% 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 532 374 -29.7% -78.3% 8 Wild City 868 370 -57.4% -69.9% 9 Assassination -- 343 -- -76.7% 10 The Assassin -- 337 -- -70.0% Great hold for Pixels. Very good for Inside Out. How holdovers do today and with Wednesday night pre-sales will affect their holiday showings on Thursday. Rank Movie Last Thu. Pre-sales Mon. Pre-sales % chg 1 Pixels 4,628 3,935 -15.0% 2 Inside Out 1,354 1,261 -6.9% 3 Undercover Duet 1,137 914 -19.6% 4 Hitman: Agent 47 982 565 -42.5% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? 825 508 -38.4% 6 Hero 2015 1,031 499 -51.6% 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 484 374 -22.7% 8 Wild City 551 370 -32.8% 9 Assassination 547 343 -37.3% 10 The Assassin 593 337 -43.2% Both Pixels and Inside Out seem to be playing well with kids which would explain the slightly inflated pre-sales today. Today is the last day of summer so there will be some frontloading that occurs today. That drop is very strong for Inside Out. On Thursday, there will be 10 new releases fighting for attention. They are No Escape Kidnapping Freddy Heineken (Hollywood remake of Dutch that's been long overdue for HK release) The Gunman Love Detective PK (Bollywood) Assassination Classroom Cat Funeral Every Thing Will Be Fine How To Make Love Like An Englishman A Tale of Three Cities PK looks like it's a UA release only. It will try to Broadway/AMC's answer to 3 Idiots. No Escape will be the big Hollywood release this week. Love Detective is the other big release of the weekend. Kidnapping Freddy Heineken is a semi-wide release. Gunman could be a wide release. The rest look like semi-wide or limited releases.

Sunday August 30 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Pixels 22,250 16,734 -24.8% -0.2% 2 Inside Out 19,105 14,734 -22.9% +12.9% 3 Hitman: Agent 47 18,120 10,135 -44.1% -2.4% 4 Undercover Duet -- 9,978 -- -1.3% 5 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 5,757 -- +1.6% 6 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 8,559 5,658 -33.9% -5.3% 7 Hero 2015 -- 5,585 -- -9.7% 8 Assassination -- 3,457 -- +1.7% 9 Wild City 9,814 3,337 -66.0% -7.3% 10 To the Fore 4,120 2,666 -35.3% +2.5% Pixels won the day but Inside Out had the best hold and biggest increase on Sunday. Pixels wasn't able to capitalize with walk-ins on this Sunday like it did last Sunday. Interesting to note that the gap between Pixel and Inside Out's walk-ins shrunk quite rapidly as the weekend progressed. (Thu +1400 > Fri +1700 > Sat +1000 > Sun +300) Outside of Friday (Pixels might be playing like a date movie), Inside Out decreased the gap by around 1,100 admissions to just 300 on Sunday. Pixels average admissions per showing stood at a good 71 but almost 100 fewer showtimes did not deter Inside Out crowds as it posted an average of 98 people per showing. In the first of 4 big battles this weekend, Hitman won Sunday although I did see Undercover Duet lose 1,000 admissions today. Sunday turned out to be a intense fight between #5-#7 as those three settled within less than 200 admissions of each other. Knock Knock actually increased while Hero posted a huge 10% decline. It was topsy-turvy weekend for Hero and Mission Impossible 5 as both won 2 days in admissions this weekend. The 3rd close battle belonged to Wild City and Assassination. Wild City won the previous 3 days but Assassination won Sunday over Wild City with an increase. The last duel came courtesy from To the Fore and The Assassin who both stayed within 100 admissions of each other the past 3 days. Sunday saw To the Fore winning by just over 100 admissions so it seems there is a winner that will emerge the next couple of days between those two. Weekend adm. Aug 27-30 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 Pixels 58,338 55,061 -5.6% 2 Inside Out 56,459 39,854 -29.4% 3 Hitman: Agent 47 61,006 32,927 -46.0% 4 Undercover Duet -- 32,245 -- 5 Knock Knock Who's There? -- 20,634 -- 6 Hero 2015 -- 17,114 -- 7 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation 27,446 16,775 -38.9% 8 Wild City 33,462 10,894 -67.4% 9 Assassination -- 10,603 -- 10 To the Fore 13,535 8,339 -38.4% 11 The Assassin -- 8,054 You can see the number of close battles there were this week. All 4 battles were within 700 admissions of each other. 3 of them had gaps of less than 500 between them. Weekend Estimates August 27 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Pixels $690,000 -9.4% $1,880,000 2 Inside Out $420,000 -28.2% $8,009,000 3 Hitman: Agent 47 $325,000 -47.2% $1,562,000 4 Undercover Duet $305,000 $305,000 5 Knock Knock Who's There? $189,500 $198,500 Pixels was downgraded thanks to its lower than expected Sunday while Inside Out impressed enough to send it past 8m. Hitman had an OK hold. Undercover Duet was a non-starter while Knock Knock did not do well at all. 6 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $178,000 -43.5% $6,642,000 Mission Impossible 5 was adjusted up with its better than expected Sunday.